[IxDA Discuss] Why isn't voice-based UI mainstream?

[Gretchen Anderson]

>plus, talking is WAY slower than your hands.
You bet. At least for some things.

We just did a related project and looked at voice, and one thing that
came up is that StarTrek really set an expectation that's hard to
deliver on. The whole "computer: [insert your open ended, humanly voiced
question/command here]" thing isn't quite prime time. Plus, people have
a hard time remembering the voice commands where a GUI can give you
prompts.

Another reason is that many platforms make invoking voice command hard.
You often have to go somewhere/do something special and then start
talking. I subscribed to Jott, thinking it would be my new fave way to
set reminders for myself. But in reality I don't remember to make a
special phone call to set a reminder, I go to my calendar on my phone.
"Input where you output!"